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The opening
Friday practice for the 2011 Italian Grand Prix would see Petrov and
Chandhok head out first on a sunny day. Pirelli would be supplying its
medium and soft compound for this race. For the A&T Williams F1 team it
would be Pastor Maldonado who would come out first for his installation lap.
Rubens Barrichello would come out and be the last to return to his pit after
his installation lap. Rubens would be using a new helmet design for this
race. There would be two DRS zones for this race as we had Buemi,
Alguersuari and Massa out on the track. All three would pit leaving the
track empty.
Next to come back out was D'Ambrosio running on the medium tyre. He would
set a 1m:43.577 as Glock also came out, followed by Button. D'Ambrosio would
pit as we had Alonso also come out. Button would pit after one lap as
Rosberg took to the track. The drivers would pit as Schumacher came out only
to also pit. D'Ambrosio and Kobayashi were now back out on the track and
like the others would pit prior to setting a time. With just over
an hour remaining it would be Ricciardo who was next out. Chandhok and Perez
were next out as Ricciardo set a 1m:34.675. Ricciardo would improve with a
1m:33.223 on his next lap. Chandhok would return to the pits complaining of
an issue with his steering wheel.
Both Torro Rosso cars were out along with Hulkenberg and Rubens for
Williams. Ricciardo would set a 1m:32.124 with Perez now second, 1m:33.772.
Pastor would also come out as Alguersuari set a 1m:29.779, to go fastest.
Perez was now second, 1m:31.922, as Liuzzi took to the track. Kobayashi was
up to second, 1m:29.842, as Hulkenberg set a 1m:29.288 to be fastest. But
Alguersuari would set a 1m:28.185 to take the top spot. Rubens would pit
without setting a time while Pastor's first time would set a 1m:33.299 to be
seventh. Alguersuari would improve with a 1m:27.650 followed by Hulkenberg
and Kobayashi. Buemi was fourth from Perez and Ricciardo. We now has Webber,
Vettel, Massa, and Petrov out on the track.
Alguersuari would set a 1m:27.224 while Pastor had improved with a 1m:29.878
to still be seventh. Vettel was now second, 1m:27.666, but Kobayashi was now
second, 1m:27.642. Like others Pastor would improve with a 1m:28.965 as
Vettel went fastest with a 1m:26.381. Alguersuari was second from Webber,
1m:27.464, Kobayashi, and Pastor now fifth with a lap of 1m:27.877. The
track was now very busy with fifty minutes remaining. Massa
was now third, 1m:27.379, while Pastor was fourth, 1m:27.401. Buemi would
take to the gravel as Pastor pitted. Rubens was still in the pit having a
problem with wiring in the cockpit. Vettel had improved with a 1m:25.914
with Webber now second, 1m:26.717. Hamilton was out on the track and would
set a 1m:25.925 to be second. Petrov was up to fourth, 1m:27.040. Rubens was
back out on the track as Vettel improved with a 1m:25.849 but Hamilton would
also improve to be fastest, 1m:25.203.
Webber was now second, 1m:25.788, as Alonso moved up to fourth, 1m:26.647.
Rubens was down in nineteenth, 1m:29.579, while Pastor was now in ninth,
1m:27.401. Hamilton would improve with a 1m:24.512 with forty minutes
remaining. Rubens would improve with a 1m:28.743 to be sixteenth. Hamilton
would pit as the track became fairly empty as the drivers assessed their
first runs. Rubens was now fifteenth with a 1m:28.046. Button was also at
the front now in second, 1m:25.409. The only drivers yet to set a time was
Glock. Rubens would also pit as we had Rosberg and Schumacher seventeenth
and eighteenth. Sutil would improved to be seventh, 1m:27.095. Schumacher
was up to sixteenth with a 1m:28.340. Pastor would come back out, currently
in tenth. Schumacher would take to the gravel at the Parabolica seeing him
return to his pit. Massa was now in tenth, 1m:27.379 seeing Pastor now
eleventh.
Alonso and Petrov were back out with thirty minutes left in the session.
Rubens was now back out after making setup changes. Petrov was now in sixth,
1m:27.040, as we now has Vettel, Webber, and Alonso back out. Pastor would
improve to be ninth, 1m:27.365, but this would become tenth as Hulkenberg
moved up to seventh, 1m:26.826. Petrov was fifth, 1m:26.625, from Alonso,
Hulkenberg and Sutil. Pastor was now twelfth while Rubens
would improve from sixteenth to fourteenth, 1m:27.493. Button was back out
as Petrov pitted. Pastor had dropped to thirteenth to be one place ahead of
Rubens in fourteenth, 1m:27.493. Pastor was back in his pit as Vettel moved
up to second, 1m:25.231. Button was now in third from Webber, Petrov,
Alonso, Hulkenberg, Massa, Kobayashi, and Sutil in tenth. The drivers
continued to use the harder medium tyre and it would probably be in
the second session where they would start to use the soft tyre.
Rubens had moved ahead of Pastor with a 1m:27.352 and he would also pit with
twenty minutes remaining. Webber would improve with a 1m:25.459 but remained
fourth. With fifteen minutes remaining the track would become fairly quiet
as D'Ambrosio came to a stop at the first chicane with smoke coming from his
car. Team-mate Glock had yet to set a time. Of the top ten only Alguersuari
was out on the track, currently in seventh, 1m:26.696. Glock was out on the
track for his first run joined by both Williams cars. Hamilton was also out
on the track after his mechanics made adjustments to his car. Pastor had said
that he felt the aero balance of his car was good. Button was back out with
ten minutes remaining. Schumacher had improved to be twelfth, 1m:27.116, as
Rubens and Pastor had dropped to fourteenth and fifteenth.
The track had become very busy as the drivers came out for their final runs
of the session. Only six drivers were in their pits as Button improved to be
second, 1m:24.963. We now only has Alonso, Alguersuari, and Chandhok in the
pits. Perez would improve to be tenth, 1m:26.876as Hamilton went fastest in
sector one. Button was on an improved lap joined by Hamilton. Hamilton would
set a 1m:24.127 while Button failed to improved and remained ion a
1m:24.786. As the finals minutes counted down Hamilton was fastest from
Button, Vettel, Webber, Petrov, Alonso, Sutil, Perez, Alguersuari and
Schumacher in tenth. Rubens would improve in the closing moments to be
twelfth with a time of 1m:26.836. Another driver to improve was Sutil who
moved up to fifth, 1m:26.550. Hamilton would remain fastest but would set a
1m:23.865 to be ahead of Button by 0.921.
Rubens would drop to thirteenth while Pastor was in fifteenth. Both drivers
would complete twenty five laps during the session under the watch of both
Frank Williams and Patrick Head. It is very early days for the Williams team
as they prepare for Sunday's race. But having said that both Rubens and
Pastor were around three seconds off the pace. A very big margin to makeup. |
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